HOMAGES
Today is International Women's Day.
Over the millennia, thinkers human
and divine, all of them male, have taken up the woman question:
Regarding their anatomy:
Aristotle:
'Woman is an incomplete man.'
Saint
Thomas Aquinas: 'Woman is the misbegotten product of some defect in
the male seed.'
Martin
Luther: 'Men have broad shoulders and narrow hips, and accordingly
they possess intelligence.
Women
have narrow shoulders and wide hips, to keep house and bear and raise
children.'
Regarding their nature:
Francis
de Quevedo: 'Hens lay eggs and women lay men.'
Saint
John of Damascus: 'Woman is a sicked she-ass.'
Arthur
Schopenhauer: 'Woman is an animal with long hair and short sight.'
Regarding their fate;
Jehovah said to
women, according to the Bible: 'Thy husband shall rule over thee.'
Allah said to
Muhammad, according to the Koran: 'Righteous women are obedient.'
Eduardo Galeano
from 'Children of the Days'
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